Jo's Bent Head / James McNeill Whistler
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1954/1.350
- Title
- Jo's Bent Head
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1834-1903
- Medium and Support
- drypoint, printed in dark brown ink on laid paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1861
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
- Inscription
- Collections: C.W. Dowdeswell (Lugt 690); J.H. Hutchinson (no mark)
- Dimensions
- 32 cm x 19.4 cm (12 5/8 in. x 7 5/8 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Physical Description
- A young woman is seen sitting in profile. She faces to the right, her head bent downward, her waving hair framing her face and falling down her back. Only the face and hair are drawn fully, the rest of the woman's body is quickly drawn in a few lines.
- Subject Matter
- Whistler's "secret of drawing" approach allows him here to concentrate on Joanna Hiffernan's profile, describing the rest of her body in a few cursory lines.
- Margaret Watson Parker acquired three impressions taken from this plate, each has differences in printing and papers.
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 909 x 1423
- File Size
- 78 KB
- Record
- 1954/1.350
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1954-sl-1.350/1954_1.350.jpg
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"Jo's Bent Head; James McNeill Whistler." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1954-sl-1.350/1954_1.350.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 13, 2024.